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Nowadays, almost everyone is pursuing the healthiest and nutritive dining lives. Even though many people know certain food's calories in 100g, people cannot assure that the calories of the food they eat are 100% accurately controlled within their standards. Most food people eat are processed, and during those processes, various additives, oil, and fat are added to that food. Thus, it's an extremely hard thing to limit calorie intake. There should be a device that by scanning the food or meals, it knows the exact amount of oil, fat, and calories contained with them, and such data could be shared with people's family members and friends when they are sharing these dishes with them. In addition, this device can present to people how many calories, fat, and sugar, etc a person has already taken so far, and how many calories he/ she can take during the rest of the day. Such new media could be a positive and healthy way to encourage everyone to have a better life, simultaneously, this device could band the relationships of family members, friends, and colleagues together so as to increase more real interactions by using such technology (new media).

Wiki So Far

Currently, I have been working on the topic "Mobile App Development" and in the page of "Mobile Applications that advances New Media"on our Baruch New Media because I'm interested in this topic and I found that its Wiki page is not as comprehensive as the other topics. I've contributed to introduce some mobile applications that are not covered by my schoolmates, and these mobile applications reflect the recent trends of people's current lives. Right now, I briefly introduce "Apple Pay"on iPhone and a fitness mobile application. Besides, I'll introduce more mobile applications that are the novel New Media and improve people's live, and I'll summarize how the development mobile applications affect New Medias and the whole society by proving it with credible scholarly research.

P2P

File sharing is the manual distribution of websites' access permissions, documents, media, and programs, etc to others that are known or unknown. There are several ways for file sharing transmission, including hyperlinks, Bluetooth, Airdrop on iPhones, USB copying, and peer-to-peer (P2P) distribution, etc. P2P file sharing is one of the digital source sharing ways but based on peer-to-peer networking technology. For example, access to media like games, ebook, music, and movies via P2P file-sharing software programs, such as  BearShare, LimeWire, KaZaa, eMule, Vuze, uTorrent and BitTorrent.

However, P2P "file" sharing today is not limited to the traditional files but could be sources like loaning and funding. According to Kaufman, she presents a new loaning company- Lending Club, whose operating mode is different than traditional bank mode, using peer-to-peer loaning and lending in "Peers Find Less Pressure Borrowing From Each Other". Under this P2P lending, investors who invest their money on Lending Club can directly be borrowed to borrowers with a lower rate. And such a method benefits both lenders and borrowers, so that's why P2P lending has been developing. Nevertheless, is it credible? Compared with the traditional banks that have been accumulating skyscraping credits, P2P lending remains unproven; otherwise, P2P lending has already exceeded bank loaning. 

Privacy

Nowadays, privacy and confidentiality are the main issues of new media, particularly online media. New media tools especially online sites humans rely on are quite convenient and irreplaceable currently. Numerous personal information is presenting online, and it is a common first step for most people to expand their online networking. Despite many people set their private information or posts to a specific group of people that might be their families, friends, and colleagues, their privacy can be leaked either intentionally or unintentionally. Because of the Internet's timeliness, information on it can be captured less than one second by some people even if the post owner deletes, recalls or withdraws the message within a few seconds. Thus, the exposed privacy might be retained and disseminated permanently online. Online networking site like Facebook, its privacy setting is confusing since although people set their privacy only to intimate friends their posts could still be seen by others which are their friends's friends. Confidentiality is another big issue existing among new media. Many hackers might aim at unveiling certain people's privacy online because stealing online information is a much easier way than stealing in person, and the anonymous and fakable natures of new media users. In addition, the virtual online identity could be easily falsified, concealed, or manipulated by just coding algorithm.
Therefore, it's incumbent on both new media and their users to screen the online environment and go online in a civilized manner.

Advice

As we all know, there are many types of new media, such as websites and blogs, emails, online chat rooms, social media and sharing platforms, mobile applications, and web advertising, etc. When it comes to using new media to improve Baruch College's services for educational purposes, the best novel options could be online sharing platforms and mobile applications.
Why choosing online sharing platforms? Nowadays, it's usual to see that there are no fixed classrooms and classmates when each of us starts a new class in a new semester. Thus, it's less likely for many students to communicate and exchange ideas with each other, and even classmates they become "good friends" during a semester, they will probably have fewer and fewer contacts if they don't register the same class in the future. However, once online sharing platforms created and opened, students in one class can share their feelings and thoughts, which will be seen by the other classmates. Moreover, students themselves can also interact with each other online. For professors, they won't concern about the limited class time to listen to every students' voicings, and they can skim every student's comments or thoughts online and then give them feedback that can last permanently.
Another option is mobile applications. I've noticed that Baruch College had such a message notified application on the mobile device, but it was not perfect. On that app, it showed the availability of the computer lab. However, it disappeared this semester. In my opinion, Baruch can improve that mobile application and release it again. In the improved version, it can contain timely reminders of the availability of computer labs, library study rooms, students' rest seats, and student club activities. What's more, in that mobile application, it can also recommend the number of students on every floor so that students can avoid the crowd and time-wasting in finding somewhere to seat and rest.